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Virginia bills · 2026 Regular Session

Virginia HB 161

Virginia Lottery; internet gaming authorized, definitions, penalties, effective clause.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To Governor
  6. Became law

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Summary

Official abstract published by the Virginia legislature· SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE

Virginia Lottery; casinos; internet gaming authorized; penalties. Authorizes internet gaming in the Commonwealth to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board. The bill requires a casino gaming operator that intends to conduct internet gaming to submit a separate notice of intent to the Director of the Virginia Lottery for each internet gaming platform that it intends to offer accompanied by a $2 million platform fee that is to be deposited into the Internet Gaming Platform Fee Holding Fund for the purpose of funding start-up costs and other costs associated with the implementation and creation of a gaming commission. The bill permits the Board to issue an internet gaming operator license to a casino gaming operator that submits an application on forms approved by the Board, meets certain qualifications, and pays an initial licensing fee of $500,000. The tax rate is set at 20 percent of an internet gaming operator's adjusted gross internet gaming revenue with five percent allocated to the Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund, six percent allocated to the Internet Lottery Hold Harmless Fund until January 1, 2037 and the remaining 89 percent before January 1, 2037, and 95 percent after January 1, 2037, allocated to the general fund.

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Roll-call votes

State vote data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 4:38 PM.

DateVoteResultYour legislators
Mar 4, 2026
House		H VOTE:failSet your home in Virginia to see
Mar 4, 2026
Senate		Insist & Request RpassSet your home in Virginia to see
Mar 4, 2026
Senate		Passage RpassSet your home in Virginia to see
Mar 3, 2026
Senate		Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitutepassSet your home in Virginia to see
Mar 3, 2026
Senate		Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)passSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 25, 2026
Senate		Reported from General Laws and TechnologypassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 17, 2026
House		H VOTE:passSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 17, 2026
House		H VOTE:failSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 13, 2026
House		Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitutepassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 13, 2026
House		Reported from Appropriations with substitutepassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 5, 2026
House		Reported from General Laws with substitutepassSet your home in Virginia to see
Feb 3, 2026
House		Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitutepassSet your home in Virginia to see

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